Olabode Sowunmi III is an energy policy and gas sector specialist. He serves as Senior Legislative Aide to the Senate President on Gas and Power and as Consultant to the House Committee on Gas, is Vice-Chair of the Gas-to-Power Study Group of the Nigerian Gas Association, and sits on the Group of Experts on Gas to the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe. He led the team that analysed and advised the National Assembly on electricity tariff increases. He is Publisher and editor-at-large of Energia Today and co-owner of the energy consultancy Cabtree Limited. Before moving into energy in 2010 he worked in consulting with KPMG and in marketing with Ericsson, where he became Head of Marketing and Communications for West Africa. He has advised USAID, the DFID Facility for Oil Sector Transformation programme and the German GIZ energy programme, and holds a degree in Engineering Physics from Obafemi Awolowo University. He appears regularly as a guest energy analyst on Channels Television, AIT and SABC.